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Monday, January 03, 2005

Recently I happened upon a discovery through the Gaelic pages of the Blas site of BBC North Ireland. Since I can't read yet the Irish, I took a name which seemed interesting, from the heading History, and ran it though a search engine. I got an English language copy of an article by Nollaig O' Gadhra, who seems to be himself a scholar or writer of some note.

So Mr. O'Gadhra wrote about this Canon, An tAthair Peadar Ua Laoghaire, a priest in Ireland who, it is said, pioneered modern Irish prose about the same time Joyce was away in Paris putting down the words to Ulysses. Or so I understand. I'm going to look up this man's works. S?adna and Mo Sc?al F?in were taught in Irish schools for years.

Recalled O'Gadhra during a lecture in Guag?n Barra, in the West Cork Gaeltacht, "It is a pity that more has not been done by official and academic bodies, especially in Cork, this year to remember An tAthair Peadar or at least to recall his achievements in context so that children would not grow up with a belief that Bloomsday was about the only thing that was going on in Dublin or in Ireland in 1904 and that some effort would be made by our media and literary critics to recall the full mixture of forces that moulded the Ireland of the first decade of the 20th century."

You are the Gender Abolitionist type of feminist. This means that you
feel the best way to destroy patriarchal oppression is to rid ourselves
of misguided gender roles, and instead live in a society that does not
make such marked assumptions about gender differences. The Gender
Abolitionist is culturally radical, but rather conservative when it
comes to sexual liberation and politics. You have a strong sense of
human rights for all. In fact, you are actually a very moral person.
You don't see people in terms of gender and are thus very philosophical
in order to perceive the world in such a manner. You think people
shouldn't identify others in terms of gender. When most people see a
person, the first thing they think is "That person is a woman" or "That
person is a man", but they do NOT think "That person is a
short-fingernail". Most make someone's gender their IDENTITY, but
fingernail length would never be considered part of their identity. A
gender abolitionist would claim gender should be like fingernail
length--it shouldn't be part of someone's identity. By making gender a
part of identity, difference is emphasized and oppression is often
justified. Thus, gender shouldn't be regarded to such a large extent by
society. You are mostly concerned with seeing women become fully
equalized with men by eliminating gender roles, as these roles oppress
women.